Glove compartment lid for vehicles, or the like

Abstract

A lid for a glove compartment of a vehicle, or the like, comprised of an upper and a lower injection molded lid half, which halves are secured together, a lock for the glove compartment lid, including a swiveling lock bar, which is held to the lid, and a cam carrying tumbler which is moved to position cams for swivel opening the lock bar when the tumbler is pushed in, the lid halves are shaped with various recesses, holes and shapings for being supported in relative positions and for receiving and holding the lock.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. A lid for a glove compartment, or the like, comprising: a first and a second plastic material lid half; said lid halves having spaced apart edges; hinge means on one said edge for enabling said lid to be hingedly attached to another object; at another said edge, both said lid halves being provided with respective bearing seats for receiving a closing device;   that said closing device being at said bearing seats; said closing device comprising: a locking bar located between said lid halves and supported on said second lid half bearing seat; said locking bar including an engaging element for extending out of said second lid half toward the other object to which said lid is hingedly attached; biasing means for biasing said locking bar engaging element to engage the other object;   pushbutton means supported on said first lid half bearing seat and operable to engage said locking bar and for urging said locking bar contrary to the bias of said locking bar biasing means; pushbutton means biasing means for biasing said pushbutton means away from engaging said locking bar.     
     
     
       2. The lid of claim 1, wherein said pushbutton biasing means comprises a compression spring between said pushbutton means and said second lid half. 
     
     
       3. The lid of claim 1, wherein said locking bar is supported by said second lid half bearing seat which supports said locking bar on said lid halves for swiveling between the positions of said locking bar; said locking bar biasing means comprising a torsion spring having one leg in biasing engagement with said engaging element and having a second leg in biasing engagement with one said lid half.   
     
     
       4. The lid of claim 1, wherein said lid halves have, on the same respective said edges thereof, and away from said hinge means, molded-in gripping recesses. 
     
     
       5. The lid of claim 1, wherein said bearing seat of said first lid half comprises an annular nipple projecting toward said second lid half; said nipple having a free end away from said first lid half; said first lid half further having an opening therein aligned with said nipple for enabling said pushbutton means to extend therethrough.   
     
     
       6. The lid of claim 5, wherein said nipple has longitudinally extending slots defined therein terminating at said nipple free end; said slots being for receiving cams on said pushbutton means; said pushbutton means having an outside surface having cams attached thereon and said cams being placed so as to be received in said nipple slots; said pushbutton means being inserted in said nipple with said cams thereof in said slots, for retaining said pushbutton means both longitudinally, against the normal bias of said pushbutton biasing means, and rotationally.   
     
     
       7. The lid of claim 6, wherein said slots and said cams are on diametrically opposite sides of said nipple and pushbutton means, respectively. 
     
     
       8. The lid of claim 6, wherein said pushbutton biasing means comprises a compression spring between said pushbutton means and said second lid half; said compression spring urging said cams into said slot. 
     
     
       9. The lid of claim 5, wherein said closing device comprises locking means for making said closing device lockable. 
     
     
       10. The lid of any of claims 1, 5 or 9, wherein said lid halves are dimensioned such that some respective said edges thereof are slightly offset and one said lid half being smaller than the other said lid half. 
     
     
       11. The lid of claim 9, wherein said locking means comprises said pushbutton means comprising a key operable rotatable tumbler and a housing for containing said tumbler and for permitting rotation thereof by a key; said tumbler having an end facing toward said locking bar; a cam on that said tumbler end for being rotated by said tumbler into engagement with said locking bar for moving said locking bar with said engaging element against the bias of said locking bar biasing means.   
     
     
       12. The lid of claim 11 further comprising means for retaining said tumbler in said housing while permitting said tumbler to rotate with respect to said housing. 
     
     
       13. The lid of claim 11, wherein said retaining means comprises said housing including tongue means therein which are spring-biased toward said tumbler, and said tumbler including groove means for being engaged by said tongue means, thereby to retain said tumbler in said housing. 
     
     
       14. The lid of claim 13, wherein said bearing seat of said first lid half comprises an annular nipple projecting toward said second lid half; said nipple having a free end away from said first lid half; said first lid half further having an opening therein aligned with said nipple for enabling said pushbutton means to extend therethrough;   said housing having an outside surface with cams attached thereon and said cams being so placed as to be received in said slots in said nipple;   said pushbutton means being inserted in said nipple with said housing cams in said slots retaining said pushbutton means both longitudinally against the normal bias of said pushbutton biasing means and rotationally.   
     
     
       15. The lid of claim 1, wherein said lid halves are secured together; bearing points extending from at least one said lid half toward the other said lid half for abutting as said lid halves are secured. 
     
     
       16. The lid of either of claims 1 or 15, wherein said lid halves are secured together through one said lid half having a tab thereon in tongue form near an edge of that said lid half and the other said lid half having a cutout therein for receiving said half. 
     
     
       17. The lid of claim 15, wherein said lid halves are secured by being screwed together and said bearing points are defined at said screw connections. 
     
     
       18. The lid of any of claims 3, 5 or 15, wherein said second lid half bearing seat includes bearing blocks on said second lid half and which are grooved for receiving said locking bar for enabling said locking bar to swivel under the influence of said locking bar biasing means and said pushbutton means; an opening through said second lid half through which said engaging element of said locking bar extends.   
     
     
       19. The lid of claim 18, wherein said locking bar includes bearing shaft journals; said bearing block grooves being placed to receive said bearing shaft journals. 
     
     
       20. The lid of claim 19, wherein said first lid half includes webs with recesses formed therein and said webs and said recesses therein being placed and shaped for receiving said bearing shaft journals as said bearing shaft journals are held in said blocks.